The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-23
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
Of the Divide.

Notes Clipped and Condensed From
| Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
Diptheria at Deer Lodge is now abat-
ing:
The Turner'S picnic at Columbia Gar
dens, Butte, came off last Sunday.
A cemetery association has been form
ed in Helena, and the capital will have a
new cemetery.
The railroad station at Deer Lodge has
been removed from the west side to the
foot of second street.
The bridge at Bearmouth was destroy
ed by the high water last week and all
trains stopped in consequence.
It is rumored that a line of horse cars
is to be put in Butte, in opposition to the
Bennett electric street railway.
The citizens of Rimini, in Lewis and
Clarke county are making an organized
kick concerning their mail facilities.
The Butte team defeated the Three
Forks eleven in latch game of cricket
at Butte, last Sunday; score, 10 to SO.
David Allerdice died in a saloon
in Spring Hill last week from
laryngitis, caused by excessive use of
strong drink.
The River Press says the Manitoba
road will reach Great Falls by Sept. LIST;
COL Dodge says not until some time
in November.
Eugene Wingler, the Helena barber,
arrested for bigamy, was released on
promise to support his legal wife. The
other will sue for divorce.
Early last Monday morning, eight
prisoners confined in the Helena city jail
for petty offenses, made good their es-
cape and cleared out of town.
Ex-Governor Potts died at his home in
Helena last Friday. He had been suf-
fering from aneurism of main artery of
the chest since last autumn.
A man supposed to be named Baker
had a cateleptic fit in Butte on Sunday
and another one early Monday morning;
another one may result fatally.
The commencement exercises of the
College of Montana at Deer Lodge were
held on Wednesday, the 18th, and the
college is now closed for the summer.
One hundred and fifty horses have
been stolen from the band of Fergus
Bros, of the Judith Basin. The thieves
are supposed to be Blood Indians.
John Mcguire has telegra phed from
Helena to Editor O'Brien an offer of
$4,000 for three lectures in Butte and
Helena, with what success is not learned
A company has been Incorporated for
the building of railroad between Boze-
man and Butte and the press of the two
towns is doing everything possible to
forward the scheme.
On Monday the coupling of the Pull
man sleeper of train crossing the Null
len pass broke, and but for the prompt
action of the air-brakes serious acci-
dent would have resulted.
A. H. Hooper, of Spring Hill, aged %
years suicided last Thursday at John
Peate's boarding house by shooting him.
self in the left side. He had been i'll with
consumption for several years and was
despondent.
On Sunday, in Helena, the Journal
publishing company's nine defeated the
Herald nine; score, 80 to 16. In the af-
ternoon the Helena club was victorious
over the Independents by score of IA
to3.
Geo. F. Woolston, the waterworks man
of Helena, will get his supply from wells
in the valley two miles from the center
of the town, whence it will be taken to a
reservoir on the hills of a hight sufficient
for use for fire purposes
A feature of the rapid railroad building
now being done by the Manitoba road in
Northern Dakota is the movable town
which keeps pace with the end of the
track and which is composed largely of
prostitutes, gamblers and other human
vultures.
All through the winter and spring the
saloon keepers of Helena have been re-
newing and paying their licenses in ad-
vance as far as the treasurer would &C
| cept them under the belief that they
would hold good until their expiration
despite the increase of liquor licenses
{ which goes into effect July 1st. 1t now
transpires from an opinion rendered by
} Sanders, Cullen Il Sanders that they have
/ been too previous and will have to pay
! tie increase.